Friday, September 17, 2010

Bruce Bochy is a genius

As hard as those words were to type, I had to type them. there is no other way to describe his decision to put Edgar Renteria in the leadoff hole.
Admit it, you probably had the same reaction as every other Giants fan when you saw that ol' Sleepy had Renteria leading off tonight. As a matter of fact, I was so sure Bochy lost his mind when I saw it that I tweeted: "Wow, Rent batting leadoff! I hope Sanchez has another no-no in him tonight." Well Rent proved me wrong by going 4 for 5 and being a table-setter just like a leadoff man should.

Speaking of Jonathan Sanchez....

He absolutely dominated the Dodgers tonight. The first inning looked pretty scary as Juan Uribe appeared determined to throw the game away again when he air-mailed Ryan Theriot's bunt attempt in the first inning. This allowed Rafael Furcal to score and sent Theriot to 2nd. The Dodgers had one run already in and a runner on second with no outs.

The old Jonathan Sanchez would have gone on to fall apart and allow 4 or 5 runs. But this is Dirty Sanchez we are talking about here.

And Dirty he was.

Sanchez settled down to strike out 12 Dodgers and walk exactly zero. I will say that another way, Jonathan Sanchez walked ZERO batters in 7 innings! Five days after walking 7 batters in 5 innings the lanky lefty walked 0. Striking out 12 batters, a career high for Sanchez, while walking 0 is a feat that has only happened 12 times in Giants history. (Tim Lincecum has done it 3 times!) So Sanchez has another page in the Gigantes long history books.

And you guys wanted to trade him for that Adam Dunn guy.

I can't end the article without mentioning the offense. They finally joined the party today. After scoring a grand total of 9 runs in their last 5 games, the offense busted out for 10 runs in one game! Did I mention it was against the Dodgers?

Aubrey Huff continued his MVP push by getting the scoring started with a 4 run homerun off Dodgers starter Ted Lilly. Meanwhile, back at the batcave, Buster Posey followed him with a solo shot and the Giants were suddenly up 5-1 effectively deciding the game. But the Giants would pour on 5 more runs and getting a homerun from another guy I'm sure Giants fans weren't too excited to see in the lineup tonight: Jose Guillen. Guillen went 3 for 3 by the way, (you genius Boch!)

Tonight the Brewers, who have lost 10 of their last 15 games, come rolling into town. They have hopefully given up on the season as their record would indicate. This would be great since the Padres are playing the Cardinals and Tony Larussa and Albert Pujols would never let their team throw in the towel no matter how many games back they are.

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IN THE SHADOW OF BONDS

So the Giants won the World Series for the first time since they have been in San Francisco! I guess you could say that they are not in the shadow of Bonds anymore. But that is the name of the blog and I am stumped for a new one. I'm gonna keep the name for a while at least so we'll see how it goes!